On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:40:59PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Matthew Seaman writes: > > > You mean you want to generate a /var/db/pkg/portname-1.2.3 > > directory with appropriate contents so you can wrangle a bunch > > of files already on your hard drive as if they were a port? > > Yes. > > > Actually, that's pretty much what the ports system does when you > > do an install from source. Check out the commands the 'do-package' > > target runs as shown in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > > > Ok. > > > Submitting PRs with updates to bring the FreePascal port up to date > > will earn you karma points... > > I am thinking perhaps start out with a "binary" port or a package until I > get familiar with the port system.
In most cases that's actually a bit harder than doing a simple port :) Of course, there are applications that do not lend themselves to porting simply, but in most cases even the "Quick Porting" procedure described in the Porters Handbook[1] is enough to get you a working, albeit not picture-perfect, package. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading.
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